Dissimulation.
not cybernetics
Dissimulation.
We remain perfectly capable of making catastrophically short-sighted decisions all by ourselves. The technology simply amplifies the incentives we have already normalised.
The road to hell is paved with greedy algorithms.
Enduring systems do not survive by resisting change, but by metabolising its consequences into temporary coherence.
A school can teach systems thinking and still fail to recognise the system it has become. The paradox is not educational but civilisational: systems routinely develop the capacity to analyse (and acknowledge) everything except the conditions that organise and sustain their own perception.
Meaning is not hidden inside things. It emerges through the relationships, delays, absences, and consequences that allow anything to matter at all.
The question is whether what we currently reward actually assists the capacity of civilisation to persist, adapt, repair itself, and create meaningful futures.
Every age reaches for old stories to explain new realities. The irony is that most stories survive not because (or even if) they are true, but because they are easy to transmit, to remember, to tell.
Wealth is usually treated as evidence that society is working. But extreme accumulation may also reveal something stranger: a system increasingly organised around preserving wealth, whether or not that preservation still serves the world around it.
Still here. Still thinking. Still refusing to disappear.
No one is coming to save us from ourselves. Sounds like an opportunity as much as a burden.
Extreme wealth is not proof of independence. The billionaire appears to stand above society, but in reality stands upon it.